Politics: RIP Angelo Reyes..... Screw You Mr. President

We have this mentality of condemning publicly a person who was associated with the former government.  But if you would think of it, we have yet to see credible evidence against them.  Furthermore, we also have yet to see solid evidence against GMA. It is this perception of association with GMA which clouds our judgment.  More often than not, our emotions take over our rationality in seeing things.  The same rule applies to the late Angelo Reyes.  The man has served the country well, both in the military and in the executive branch.  And all of a sudden these whistleblowers surface, and because they are again pointing to an anomaly of the GMA government, we take their word as if it were gospel truth.  And we again start to condemn people.  But then again, where is the evidence? Angelo Reyes was just a sacrificial lamb in this government's futile effort to investigate anomalies of the previous government which is just a way of covering up for their own non-performance.  It's so sad a good man had to die this way, tried publicly, not even given a chance to prove himself. 

Good man down...Who will be next?

I am quite puzzled by the way Filipinos think nowadays.  We seem to have a double standard, a crazy one.  We hate a corrupt official but we tend to embrace someone who has a clean slate, so clean that he has not accomplished anything during his previous term as a lawmaker.  We also hate military people who receive perks but we condone military adventurists, to the point of even electing them to the highest positions in our govrnment.  We hated someone who is too intelligent, we hated Marcos and GMA, and loved the incompetent ones, say Cory and his son NoyNoy.  I know we love underdogs but surely incompetent officials and military adventurists do not fit into the category of underdogs.  Or have we degenerated into proto-humans, often identifying with the same inferior kind.  Emotions really take a big part in our opiions regarding politics to the point that we fail to weigh evidence to achieve rationality.

Now going back to this government.  Our situation has never been this worse before.  Almost every commodities prices are rising, criminality is taking its peak, our international reputation is being laughed upon due to recent blunders by this government.  It's very easy to point fingers to the past government but after everything else has been settled, what's next?  Isn't it more prudent instead to use government funds for more postive and forward undertakings rather than use them in these hapless investigations which drag for years to months without even reaching closure.  This is the real waste of funds.  Why not act instead rather than blame the past government.  The ball is now in their hands, but sadly they don't even know how to dribble it.

The Lynch Mob
(picture taken  from the Philstar.com)

This government is turning into a lynch mob, out to lynch people who benefitted a lot from the past government.  But as previous events have turned out, thie efforts have been put to naught because of issues of constitutionality and merit. It seems this government had not thought of their steps very well.  They were not able to provide evidence against the "Queen" during her term, still groping for evidence in this government.  Maybe they do not have evidence at all.  While their intentions may be upright, their methods seem to be faulty, which makes everything all messed up.  Lots of time and public funds used up for these useless investigations.  It is time to quit all of these and do steps necessary to move forward.  Putting the past government behind bars is not much of a legacy, but to be able to turn around people's lives is. 



Non-Performing, Finger-pointing President



And so another one bites the dust....so unfortunate and sad.  For some, they might think he is guity enough to commit suicide but still some other think otherwise.  He could have been a victim of trial by publicity.  But the man who is behind all these investigations have yet to prove his worth as a President.  Eight months into office and we have yet to see even a tiny bit of substantial improvement in the nation.  Maybe he should also put a bullet into his head, or maybe he's too apathetic to notice this.  Like mother like son.